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  • Calling All Android Developers: Zong Offers Simple Monetization for Mobile Applications

    Posted on December 8, 2010 | No Comments
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  • AppMakr now supports GeoRSS tagging

    AppMakr now supports GeoRSS tagging

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    AppMakr is a service that allows you to make simple, Internet-fed apps for the iPhone, Touch, or iPad. Historically, AppMakr has been called a glorified RSS reader but, with the addition of push notifications, a native image viewer, and GeoRSS support, they're trying to shake that image. GeoRSS is the latest addition to the product and allows content providers to stick a little XML code into their feed to mark posts with GPS coordinates. You can then use the iOS's native map-handling to view these posts on Google Maps or within the app itself.

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  • GoMobi tries to make it easy for SMBs to jump on the mobile web

    GoMobi tries to make it easy for SMBs to jump on the mobile web

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Small businesses often have trouble developing and maintaining traditional websites, so it should be no surprise that adding a mobile-friendly website is a cost that many SMBs simply won't be able to justify. The folks behind the .mobi domain are trying to remedy that with their new GoMobi initiative. They're rolling out a setup assistant and hosting deals with a few select registrar partners, allowing anyone to easily setup a mobile website.

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  • Pay what you want for Kiddix OS

    Pay what you want for Kiddix OS

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    From Microsoft Bob to Edubuntu there have been a number of attempts at making computers of various sorts easier and more useful for young people. Another participant in this space is Kiddix, “a complete operating system and software environment for children, built from the ground up with your family’s needs and safety in mind.” Kiddix [...]

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  • Toyko Flash’s Changing Lanes Watch: Changing the way you view your time

    Toyko Flash’s Changing Lanes Watch: Changing the way you view your time

    Posted on June 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Many times during the day, I look at my watch. It’s a rather easy thing to read. Its functionality and simplicity has remained for years. However, that notion wasn’t good enough for one company, namely Tokyo Flash.

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  • The Olympus PEN E-P2 now comes in silver

    The Olympus PEN E-P2 now comes in silver

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    If you’ve been living your life in an endless nightmare of pain, confusion, and horror, your prayers have been answered: the Olympus PEN E-P2 now comes in silver. Hamburg, 6 May 2010 – Next week the E-P2, until now only cloaked in classic black, will also be available in silver. The camera unites the power and [...]

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  • Looks like Microsoft’s Kins might be heading to AT&T, T-Mobile, and many more

    Looks like Microsoft’s Kins might be heading to AT&T, T-Mobile, and many more

    Posted on April 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Looks like the Verizon/Vodafone exclusivity on the Kin 1 and Kin 2 might be short-lived -- or at least, someone at Microsoft is already prepping for the day when it's over. Days before the Kin 1 and 2 were made official, a ROM hacker known only to the internets as Conflipper published screenshots pulled from an early copy of the Kin OS. After a bit more digging, Conflipper just stumbled upon some more goodies: Kin system provisioning files for other carriers. Lots.. and lots of other carriers.

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  • CTIA banners begin to unfurl; Samsung finally learns to keep the cat in the bag

    CTIA banners begin to unfurl; Samsung finally learns to keep the cat in the bag

    Posted on March 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Oh, Samsung. For as long as I can remember, your banners have flown on the outer walls of the Las Vegas Convention Center during CTIA. And for as long as I can remember, your banners have given away mammoth chunks of what you were announcing at the show, days before said announcement actually happened. Not this [...]

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  • Vuze/Azureus being pushed out on prominent BitTorrent sites

    Vuze/Azureus being pushed out on prominent BitTorrent sites

    Posted on February 19, 2010 | No Comments
    There's a bit of a controversy in the BitTorrent community, friends. Two rather prominent, so-called private trackers, whose names I will not mention "just because," have announced that they will be banning Vuze, the former Azureus, one of the elder statesmen of the BitTorrent protocol. Say what you will about the direction Vuze took—I hated it—but there isn't a more powerful torrent client under the sun. Make no mistake about it: it is an important loss, and one of the bigger developments is the recently quiet world of BitTorrent.

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  • Rubik’s Slide offers 10,000 puzzles

    Rubik’s Slide offers 10,000 puzzles

    Posted on February 12, 2010 | No Comments
    I don’t want to be a Fussy Freddy here but these new digital Rubik’s Cubes make it impossible to peel off the stickers and rearrange them. So what you’re left with is the insurmountable task of actually completing the puzzles yourself. Some people like that, though.

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  • Ten years of BlackBerry

    Ten years of BlackBerry

    Posted on December 28, 2009 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Ten_years_of_BlackBerry'; The year is 1999. Bill Clinton is the President of the United States, gas is 94 cents a gallon, Bondi Blue iMacs are a staple in dorm rooms across the country, and Microsoft is trying to bring the desktop Windows experience to the pocket, pushing its Palm-size PC concept (after Palm had quashed the original "Palm PC" branding) on a world still feeling jilted by the failures of the Apple Newton. 3Com subsidiary Palm and its heavyweight licensee Handspring have figured out something interesting about the still-nascent PDA market, though: people like simplicity. If an electronic organizer does what it says it's going to do, keeps your information in sync with your PC, runs for forever and a day on a single set of batteries, and does it all with a minimum of fuss, people will buy. It's an exciting, challenging, and rapidly-changing era in the mobile business.

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    Ten years of BlackBerry originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Samsung Stunt for MetroPCS performs surprisingly few stunts

    Samsung Stunt for MetroPCS performs surprisingly few stunts

    Posted on December 17, 2009 | No Comments
    MetroPCS' bread and butter rests in the low- to mid-end of the handset spectrum since it offers its devices on a pricey contract-free basis, so it shouldn't come as any surprise that the freshly-announced Stunt from Samsung doesn't mess with the time-tested formula. The candybar trudges along with a 160 x 128 display, Bluetooth, AWS CDMA (like all MetroPCS handsets these days), and a shell utterly devoid of meaningful industrial design -- that's it. No more, no less. And sometimes, simplicity is a beautiful thing, right? It's not showing up on the carrier's site just yet, but the Stunt should be available today.

    Samsung Stunt for MetroPCS performs surprisingly few stunts originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Quick Look: Chumby One

    Quick Look: Chumby One

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Ladies and germs: the Chumby One. Hot on the heels of its soft, leathery older brother, the Chumby One goes for a more non-nonsense aesthetic with hard edges and a more clock-radio feel. As you recall, the device costs $99.95 and allows you to play back little widgets on a tiny touchscreen. It is at once banal in its simplicity and amazingly unfettered in the amount of content you can stream to the device. Our Chumby One came pre-installed with a few widgets including our own news feed and Twitter, which lets you view your Tweets whenever the widget rolls around. I'm going to place this thing on my desk and treat it like a third screen in order to really test the value of this wee fellow. More soon.

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  • Google breaks from tradition, posts DROID ad on home page

    Google breaks from tradition, posts DROID ad on home page

    Posted on November 6, 2009 | No Comments

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    Google's home page: a benchmark for simplicity in web design. Like clockwork, you can expect a text box, a pair of buttons, a logo (usually stylized these days), and not much else -- and if there's one thing you definitely won't see, it's an ad. So wait, what's this? Google is breaking from its time-honored tradition in a very big way today to pimp the launch of Motorola's DROID with an ad right below the search box, just like it did for the G1 last year. Not surprisingly, we've checked with our non-US editors and it seems that only Yanks are seeing this. We're conflicted about the whole thing -- we can understand that Google's stoked about Android 2.0 and the best Android-powered device to date, but this isn't really isn't as big of a deal as the first Android launch, so isn't it just a bit blasphemous? And even if it isn't, shouldn't everyone at least get on the same page about the capitalization of "DROID?"

    Google breaks from tradition, posts DROID ad on home page originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • You have to appreciate the simple design of the Wrap Wrap

    You have to appreciate the simple design of the Wrap Wrap

    Posted on October 29, 2009 | No Comments
    This is just too cool not to post. Look at that little thing. It’s genius. It’s just a bit of walnut or oak, carved into a shape that will keep your ear buds under control. I’m amazed at the shear beauty and simplicity of the little thing. I don’t even know what to call it. Calling it [...]

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